Lucky & Wild Pokie Machine
Sharp 3D graphics and some fairly unique bonus features bring the Lucky & Wild video pokie from Euro Games Technology to life, and even though symbols are traditional fruits, bells and 7’s, it’s a colourful game that looks right up to date.
Played over 5 reels, and with a fixed number of 20 paylines, there’s high-paying scatter awards, expanding wilds, and the Jackpot Cards progressive feature that’s guaranteed to result in a progressive win once it has been triggered, making players who enter this round very lucky indeed.
Vivid greens fill the background and reels of this game, which helps to make the colourful symbols stand out. Sitting above the reels are the 4 levels of the progressive features, with Club, Diamond, Heart and Spade jackpots all rising in value as a small portion of all wagers made across the EGT range goes into the pot, waiting to be claimed. Underneath is the control panel, where players set their wagers from a minimum of 0.20 to the high limit of 40.00 per spin, although free Lucky & Wild video pokie games can be found at many casinos, giving them a chance to test it out first.
Playing Lucky & Wild
To win a prize, 3 or more of the same symbol will need to land on any of the 20 paylines, on connected reels running from the left side, but it’s the bonus symbols that make this pokie stand out and each works in a slightly different way. Seeing the cherry or orange symbols on 3, 4 or 5 reels on a line will equal payouts of 5, 15 or 100x the line bet paid out, while the watermelon and grapes are both worth 10, 20 or 150x.
The other standard icons are a golden bell that’s valued at 15, 40 or 200x the line bet when it appears on 3, 4 or 5 reels, and the red 7 that pays 15, 50 or 400x. Lucky players will be wild with the horseshoe wild symbol, as this returns 20, 200 or 1000x the line bet, while also being able to substitute for fruit, the bell and the 7 if it’s then possible to complete a winline.
The top rewards however, come from the scatter symbol, which is a red star and won’t need to be in any fixed positions to pay 100, 400 or 4000x when 3, 4 or 5 turn up at once.
Lucky & Wild
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Lucky Clover Feature
The horseshoe isn’t the only wild symbol here, as the four-leaf clover can do the same job, but has a special way of ensuring that players get some massive payouts. Although it will only appear on reels 2 and 4, when it does so, it will first become an expanding wild, filling the whole reel, and then in a unique twist it will also expand sideways, filling the entire reels to either side.
This will see multiple winning line created at once, and more than makes up for the fact that there’s no real bonus games in this pokie, although players looking for traditional fruit machines usually don’t expect them anyway.
Other Features
Any of those progressive jackpots above the reels will be won by fortunate players who enter the randomly-triggered Jackpot Cards round. 12 face-down cards are shown, and the suits are revealed when each is clicked on.
Once 3 of the same suit have been found, the related jackpot is paid out, and while the Club prize can be on the small side, the Spade award can rise to a substantial amount before being won, although as a consequence, this round isn’t triggered that often.
Something that can be triggered after every win of less than 700 coins, is the optional gamble round, where correctly guessing if a playing card will be from a red or black suit doubles the win. The win can either be cashed out, or players can try to double it again, but the gamble is lost with a wrong pick at any stage, losing not only anything gained in the round so far, but also the initial win.
The Verdict
Anyone searching for nostalgic casino pokie machines should give the reels of Lucky & Wild a spin, as it mixes a classic set of symbols with some potentially blockbusting wins. The special clover symbol is the undoubted highlight of the game, stretching across reels 1, 2 and 3 when it lands on the second reel, and 3, 4 and 5 when it appears on the fourth, which can hardly fail to pay out for multiple completed winlines in one go.
But there are plenty of opportunities for gamblers to pick up big wins from the main symbols, so even without this feature, the Lucky & Wild video pokie is a recommended game.